CLASSIFICATION

A teenage girl is slain in Bamford--and the peaceful Cotswolds village will never be the same. Chief Inspector Alan Markby knows little about the victim--an underage regular at a local pub who left in the company of an unknown man on the night she was killed.

Markby's dear friend Meredith Mitchell, in the meantime, has befriended a second troubled teen--and is gaining first-hand insight into the restless dissatisfaction that plagues Bamford's younger adults. But this knowledge is leading Meredith toward shocking revelations of jealousy, family madness--and to further heinous murder she may be powerless to prevent.